Wade Phillips relishes temporary head coaching opportunity

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Even though Wade Phillips is the interim coach for Sunday’s game at Arizona, the win or loss will go on Gary Kubiak’s record.

Kubiak, who’s recuperating from a mini-stroke and will return next week, will watch Sunday’s game on television for the first time.

Becoming the interim coach – or head coach, for that matter – is nothing new to Phillips. He’s been an interim coach three times and a head coach three times.

“Sixth’s time a charm, they say,” Phillips said with a laugh. “I got the world’s record. I think I already had the record.”

Then Phillips got serious.

“It’s a privilege to be named a head coach of a team even though it’s one game,” he said. “To be (head coach or interim coach) six times in the NFL – a lot of people say they got rid of you all of those times.”

“I’ll throw my record out there. Some people say, ‘Well, he’s only 82-61.’ You check out where that is in the National Football League of the people who have coached 100 games, and you’re going to find out something different than what you think.”